Tai-pin Jin

Tai-pin Jin [cited by section, not by chapter]

p. 193, n. 14 – divine residences

*reference*	*denizens*	*description of them*	*residence*
TPJ 8:698	Transcendents	who have not achieved access to heaven	Kun-lun "amidst clouds and winds"
TPJ 4:222	Spiritlike beings	*who "bend qi (wei qi* …), and have a voice for instruction but no corporeal form"**	palace of the caelestial Bei-ji (‘North Pole’)

{the summit of mt. Kun-lun is similar to that of mt. Olumpos}

p. 90, n. 39 – the 2 Controllers: Si-min (‘Controller of Fate’) and Si-hou (‘Controller of Time’)

*reference*	*location of C.o.F. in one’s body*	*function of C.o.F.*
TPJ 195	"in the chest next to the heart. In close proximity …"	observing what one doeth; reducing years of life for faults
TPJ 4:214		keeping accounts and giving reports to Tian-jun (the ‘Caelestial Lord’)

	*figurative "C.o.F."*	*for __*
TPJ 137	humans	domestic animals
TPJ 8:699	county head	the people

	*location of C.o.T.*	*function of C.o.T.*
TPJ 181	Constellation Room (= heavenly aequivalent to the Min-tan ‘Hall of Light’)	keeping lists of time of birth of humans

the dead

	*reference*	*The dead*
p. 130	TPJ 46	"As for the dead, as" gui "they can’t come to meals regularly." Instead, "spiritlike beings" "assemble for these meals".
p. 80, n. 12	TPJ 200	"someone without a wooden coffin will turn into a" gui (‘daimon’) "and will roam about without a home. … After death," a gui will in "hunger beg for food". {cf. preta}
p. 341	TPJ 208	Those who die complaining of being "maltreated" will, after having died, be interrogated and be banished by heaven : they "will be put somewhere unpleasant and wild," in order to make them think of themselves.

p. 81, n. 15 TPJ 208 Meditation (for men) "in the locked room not far from father and mother and not away from wife and children." [ implying that the topic of the meditation ought to be congenial family-relations]

p. 279, n. 3 TPJ 1:718 – textual hierarchies

#	*group of texts*
1^st	s^en dao s^u (‘spiritlike Dao writings’)
2^nd	texts that examine affairs
3^rd	reports that oppose frivolous and superficial material

p. 215, n. 20 TPJ 1:724 – reasons for studying Dao

*by __ person*	*in order to assist __*	*degree of awe*
superior	emperors & kings	complete
average	one’s own family	half
inferior	"simply to cast off his own body."	"not at all."

[Contrast with literature advocating casting off of one’s own body (suicide by taking poison)?]

p. 133, n. 13 TPJ 2:15 – control of daimones summoned as guests, by Master

*entities*	*were messengers of __*
The 100 S^en (‘spirits’)	heaven
The Jin (‘group of vital beings’)	earth
The 100 Gui (‘daimones’)	"the space between heaven and earth"

p. 150, n. 10 TPJ 2:22 – receiving & transmitting evil

*for __*	*it is __ years*
emperors & kings	30,000
officials	3,000
commoners	300

p. 212, n. 6 TPJ 4:222 – potential attainments

*persons*	*potential attainment*
serfs	become s^an ren (good persons)
The good	like studying
The wise	*know "the gate of heaven’s dao"*
entering dao {cf. [Bauddha] "stream-enterers"}	complete the task of avoiding death
transcendents	not give up
The perfected	persevere
spirits	share the body of majestic heaven
spiritlike being = spirit of the caelestial heart	dwell in the [caelestial] North pole "in the same constellation as the supreme emperor of heaven"

pp. 90-91, n. 40 TPJ 5:305 – cosmogony

*process*	*qualities*	*result*	*#-name*
freezing into unity of:	Yuan-qi (‘Primordial Qi’)	heaven	1^st
	Huan-hu (‘the Obscure’)
	Zi-ran (‘What-Is-as-It-Is’) {cf. "I Am That I Am’}
splitting of:	[that unity]	earth	2^nd
expansion into each other of:	Yin & Yan	humans	3^rd
dispensation jointly of:	"These three"	plants & "beings" [animals]	[4^{th =}] "goods"

p. 177, n. 3 TPJ 6:464 – longevity

*longevity of __*	*is of __ years’ duration*
individuals	30
highest destined by heaven	120
earthly	100
human	80
hegemons’	60
the neighborhood-group of 5	50

p. 76 TPJ 41 – correlation of microcosm with macrocosm

*in microcosm*	*in macrocosm*
round head	heaven
square feet	earth
4 limbs	4 seasons
5 internal organs	5 phases
ears + eyen + mouth + nostrils	7 regents (sun + moon + 5 planets)

p. 128 TPJ 47 – the dead; the living

The living are allied with the sun;	The sun is yan;
malignant daimonic beings are allied with the stars.	the stars are yin.

p. 161, n. 1 TPJ 49 consisted (following the C^ao) of the Master’s Declaration

p. 181 TPJ 53 – levels of texts

1^st	original text
2^nd	commentaries
3^rd	analysis of difficult passages
4^th	adaptations [of the original text]
5^th	"fake texts"
6^th	[fake products] "meant to deceive"
7^th	"distortion of the original text"
8^th	"the distance from what was originally taught is becoming bigger and bigger."
9^th	the text "is in great disorder"
10^th	it "is completely corrupted."

p. 182 TPJ 53 – turnings by the primordial qi

*toward __ (direction)*	*result, for plants*
North	sprouting
Northeast	spreading
East	shining
Southeast	thickening
South	growing
Southwest	completing
West	ripening
Northwest	dying

p. 191 TPJ 54 – places of destiny

*the destiny of __*	*lieth with __*
the Perfected	Kun-lun
The Caelestial Master	The Purple Palace of the [caelestial] North Pole

p. 207 TPJ 56 – the 9 groups of humans

*rank*	*group*	*their task: they oversee / are in charge of __*	*their resemblance to their tasks*
1^st	spiritlike, "who are without form and who bend qi."	primordial qi	"without bodily form"
2^nd	of great spirit	heaven	hath a body
3^rd	The perfected	earth	concentrateth energy
4^th	transcendents	the 4 seasons	is transformed
5^th	of great Dao	the 5 phases	prognosticating lucks
6^th	The wise	Yin & Yan	harmonizing
7^th	The worthy	texts & writings	revising
8^th	commoners	plants	disorderly
9^th	serfs	goods & commodities	are goods themselves

Cf. also p. 211, n. 6

p. 223 TPJ 58 – the 4 ways of conduct

*to be __*	*is __ conduct*
neither good nor bad	balanced
good at times and bad at other times	deceptive
good	pure
evil	malignant

pp. 244-245 TPJ 60 – punishments in the 12 months

p.	*month*	*earthly branch*	*place of punishment*	*place of virtue*
244	11^th	1^st	"distant regions of open fields"	Yellow Springs
	12^th	2^nd C^ou	"Up above"	Hall of Light
	1^st	3^rd Yin		"at court"
	2^nd	4^th Mao		"at the gate"
	3^rd	5^th C^en		"on the roads and in the alleys"
	4^th	6^th Si	"at the root … in the inner chamber"	"the open fields"
245	5^th	7^th Wu	"in the chamber"
	6^th	8^th Wei	"within the soil"	"in the hall"
	7^th	9^th S^en	"at court"
	8^th	10^th You	"moving upward"	"at the gate"
	9^th	11^th Xu	"middle of the sky … on the roads and in the alleys"	"place of storage"
	10^th	12^th Hai	"the six distant regions, eight borders, and four stretches of open field."	Hall of Light

The "earthly branch" designated is that wheretowards the handle of the Big Dipper pointeth.

p. 252, n. 11 There is a parallel passage in Huai-nan-tze 3:11a-12b.

p. 263 TPJ 61 – sensations of the earth

*The __*	*are the earth’s __*	*Therefore, to __*	*is to __.*
water-springs	blood	unearth a water-spring	obtain blood
stones	bones	quarry stone	break bones
soil	flesh	dig into good soil	make the earth feel pain

p. 277 TPJ 62 – results of acting in accord with Master’s writings

"Heaven and earth will become brighter;

the sun, the moon, and the stars will have a halo … so that

the four barbarian peoples will … all … submit themselves.

The worthy and the learned will come forth from their hiding places."

p. 291 TPJ 63 – accoutrements for entities in heaven

*In heaven there are as many __*	*as there is __*	*in a __.*
drugs for becoming transcendent	grain	large granary
garments for transcendents	bales of cloth	large government compound
abodes for transcendents	rooms	county office

pp. 334 & 335 TPJ 66 – scholars’ understanding of Master’s book

*scholar of __ rank*	*p. 334 will __*	*p. 335 and thereby may become __*
superior	agree with the book	an honest official
medium	understand half of the book	an honest and good clerk
low	just about manage not to ignore the proper model	quite attentive

p. 339 TPJ 66 "… virtue and benevolence … in my teachings … publicize them in an edited edition. … Put it into practice … as if you had used a pair of compasses and a carpenter’s square." {symbols of Freemasons}

p. 185, n. 7 TPJ 78 – history of written material

#	*texts*
1^st	original standard
2^nd	esoteric sayings
3^rd	commentaries
4^th	frivolous and superficial
5^th	divisions of opinion
6^th	deceptive

p. 323, n. 22 TPJ 79 – resemblances of writings

*writings that resemble __*	*are __*	*in their arrangement*
heaven	"threefold"	"undertake to provide explanations."
earth	"twofold"
humans	"go only in one way,	which is blocked, moreover." – They "give only the name of the author;" not of whom submitteth them.
the 10,000 animals	"are not set in writing."	"words arranged on the spur of the moment"

pp. 212-213, n. 6 TPJ 108 – fates of the 6 ways of human life

#	*entity*	*is in charge of __*
1^st	spiritlike being	heaven
2^nd	The perfected	earth
3^rd	The transcendent	wind & rain
4^th	a being of Dao	matters of luck
5^th	The wise	the 100 surnames
6^th	The worthy	keeping the registers of the 10,000 subjects

p. 86, n. 29 TPJ 139 – how many countries there are altogether in the world

*in __*	*are __*	*beyond which is also __*
The central part	81 territories	"again one circle"
The world	10,000 countries	The "void grotto", which hath "no exterior."
total	12,000 countries	--

{"circle" =? Mahat;

"void grotto" =? A-vyakta}

p. 99, n. 3 TPJ 140 – instruction about "peace"

*[crop] which __*	*in __ (season)*	*without __*	*is __ (color) emperor’s great peace*
sprouteth	spring	injury	blue
groweth	[early] summer	fault	red
is nourished	[late summer]	fail	yellow
is harvested	autumn	damage	white
is stored	winter		black

pp. 355-360 chapter and their sections in the TPJ

*chapter*	*section*
35	41-3
36	44-6
37	47-8
38	49
39	50-1
40	52-3
41	54-5
42	56-8
43	59
44	60
45	61
46	62
47	63-4
48	65
49	66
50	67-77
51	78
52	79
53	80
54	81
55	82-3
56	84
57	88-9
58	90
65	99-101
66	102
67	103
68	104
69	105
70	106
71	107-8
72	109-11
88	129
89	130
90	131
91	132
92	133-6
96	151-3
97	154-5
98	156-61
99	162
100	163
101	164
102	165-7
103	168
104	169
105	170
106	171
107	172
108	173-6
109	177-8
110	179
111	180-4
112	185-90
113	191
114	192-203
115	204-5
116	206
117	207-8
118	209-11
119	212-3
120	214
121	215
122	216
123	217
124	218
125	219
126	220

DAOIST CLASSICS SERIES, 3 = Barbara Hendrischke (translatrix): The Scripture on Great Peace. U of CA Pr, Berkeley, 2006.